Girl Sold By Family

He works washing cars in north Karnataka and says he earns around Rs 6,000 a month. He has borrowed money from his relatives and the family has sold his wife's gold ornaments to fund the education of the bright girl and her younger sisters.

The poverty-stricken parents of two minor girls in Jharkhand who were allegedly sold off to a brick-kiln owner in West Bengal have said that they left behind their daughters in the care of the businessman so that they could be looked after by his family, police said.

A big black bindi on the four-day old baby girl's forehead and a mark on the cheek indicated that the mother wanted to ward off evil spirits from her little one. But the curse of gender discrimination, however, proved too irrepressible.

The young Yazidi girl rocked apprehensively as she described the ordeal that took her from her family, snatched from her home by militants in Iraq, then sold as a slave in Syria before finally escaping to Turkey.

In a shocking incident, a teenage girl was allegedly sold thrice for money by her family, police said.In her complaint, the 18-year-old girl alleged that she was first sold for Rs one lakh at the age of 15 by her mother, uncle and grandfather to a man named Amit, whom she later married, DIG Prem Prakash said.Five months after the marriage, her pare...

He works washing cars in north Karnataka and says he earns around Rs 6,000 a month. He has borrowed money from his relatives and the family has sold his wife's gold ornaments to fund the education of the bright girl and her younger sisters.

The poverty-stricken parents of two minor girls in Jharkhand who were allegedly sold off to a brick-kiln owner in West Bengal have said that they left behind their daughters in the care of the businessman so that they could be looked after by his family, police said.

A big black bindi on the four-day old baby girl's forehead and a mark on the cheek indicated that the mother wanted to ward off evil spirits from her little one. But the curse of gender discrimination, however, proved too irrepressible.

The young Yazidi girl rocked apprehensively as she described the ordeal that took her from her family, snatched from her home by militants in Iraq, then sold as a slave in Syria before finally escaping to Turkey.

In a shocking incident, a teenage girl was allegedly sold thrice for money by her family, police said.In her complaint, the 18-year-old girl alleged that she was first sold for Rs one lakh at the age of 15 by her mother, uncle and grandfather to a man named Amit, whom she later married, DIG Prem Prakash said.Five months after the marriage, her pare...